Discamphiceras antiquum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscamphicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Discamphiceras antiquum on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
17 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Discamphiceras antiquum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discamphiceras antiquum and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Discamphiceras antiquum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Kammerkarites frigga5 sites
- Kammerkarites haploptychus4 sites
- Phylloceras psilomorphum4 sites
- Discamphiceras silberlingi3 sites
- Fergusonites striatus2 sites
- Pleuroacanthites charlottensis2 sites
- Togaticeras togatum2 sites
- Discamphiceras pleuronotum1 site
- Euphyllites occidentalis1 site
- Franziceras kennecottense1 site
- Kammerkarites megastoma1 site
- Kammerkarites praecoronoides1 site
- Kammerkarites rectiradiatus1 site
- Nevadaphyllites1 site
- Nevadaphyllites compressus1 site
- Paradasyceras carteri1 site
- Phylloceras (Geyeroceras)1 site
- Phylloceras asperaense1 site
- Pleuroacanthites biformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Discamphiceras antiquum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Middle and late Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonites from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada10
- The Triassic/Jurassic Boundary and Hettangian biostratigraphy in the area of the Utcubamba Valley (Northern Peru)5
- Die Ammoniten-Fauna des südamerikanischen Hettangium (basaler Jura), Teil 11
- Ammonites hettangiennes de la Gabbs Valley Range (Nevada, USA)1
Each of the 17 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Discamphiceras antiquum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discamphiceras antiquum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discamphiceras antiquum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiscamphiceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guex 1980